Do you think that maybe the wreckerator is just so thrilled to have completed a line of text without having to scrape it off and try over that they feel they must punctuate that line as emphasis of their triumph? That's my theory anyway.

Oddly enough the first one is my favorite this go-around. Maybe it's because you usually find cakes with way! too!! much!!! excitement!!!! I don't believe I ever seen one with periods! LOL.... hmm for some strange reason I get the feeling the "monica" is a lot older than she says...

I'm a little disappointed that the "at" sign, colon, question mark and parenthesis got jilted in Le Tour de Punctuation. What cake couldn't use an explanatory parenthetical statement? These suuuure do.

And I'm with Joyce on this one, the alleged "pickled ginger" is smoked coho salmon. Mmmmmmm....fishy....

Moondog: =D I had to laugh because I read your post as "Zeb's dead baby" and not "Zeb's dead, baby." I'm not sure if the punctuation was intentionally ironic, but it was very well-placed! And dig the Pulp Fiction reference.

i'm pretty sure 2 of those cakewrecks were Costco cakes--which, are actually super yummy--but I guess all that yumminess just couldn't be contained and exploded onto the cake in the form of unneccessary exclammation points...

So many crazy people employed at bakeries- Terry Pratchett does tell us that multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind (!!!)!

Also, as this is the first post I've commented on, having only found this blog a day or two ago (I finished reading the backlogs this morning... too much time on my hands now that school's over o_O) I would like to say that you are awesome, both in your chiding ridicule of terrible cakes and in your manifest geekery. :)

I can't read any more of cake wrecks until I get a release from my doctor.!!. I laughed so hard yesterday that I've (been) get'in' back spasm's ever since!?! and am on muscle relaxers and theraputic massage.:/!

I bought the Thank You!! Stacey!! cake from Costco. I'm fairly certain they use the same designs at all Costcos.

I had included a picture of my order form beause as regular reader of this site, I did NOT want a disaster for a farewell party for my former boss and so filled out the form as carefully and neatly as I could. *Shrug* The cake was delicious though!

Costco cakes. $17.99, serves up to 48, two layers with that tasty chocolate cream cheese filling (my favorite) tastes darn good for the price, the roses are pretty, lots of them for the kids who insist on a flower, they change the decos for the seasons, and they provide the entertainment as well. Who could ask for anything more?

Is it just me or does the Zeb cake look like the back of a smiley face's head? I agree it looks like it is written in ketchup (or maybe smiley face blood?). But it looks like Mr. Smiley had some dry skin, because it is peeling a bit in the middle...ew.

As a chronic over-punctuator (if that's even a word!), I have the horrible feeling that if I ever get a job in a bakery, my cakes would turn out like the Thank You!!! cake!!!!!!! lol!!(See what I mean?!!)lol ;)

the "Bon Voyage" cake reminds me of when I was in elementary school and was taking spelling tests. If I didn't know how to spell a word, I'd just scribble something that looked vaguely like writing and hope that my teacher would mark it as correct.

Was anyone else reminded of the Office episode where Dwight tried to plan a birthday party? His decorations include a banner that says, in plain font, "It is your birthday." which cracked me up when I saw it.

Perhaps the decorator was one of those teenage girls who use tons of exclamation marks. In that case, consider yourself lucky there were no lowercase i's for the decorator to put a heart over instead of a dot.

What's wrong with an extra exclamation point? Grammar should be a slave to the expression of language. I'm always puzzled by people's reactions to the "overuse" of punctuation. I just watched an episode of "in Treatment" on HBO where the therapist commented that in America, we see suppressing our emotions as a sign of maturity. I think this is a perfect example of that. Don't be *too* happy. It's soooo uncool in this age of irony, apparently.

I think it's kind of sad that someone would even be offended by an extra exclamation point on a cake. "Oh dear!" Talk about sweating the small, inane stuff. If a cake isn't allowed to be "exciting" than what's the point of a cake?

If I had been decorating the last cake for a friend or family member, the giant exclamation points would have been intentional. (And there probably would have been several more, even larger.) But if I was a professional and I was making that cake for a customer, I would definitely tone it down a bit.

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